Rathangan FC, Canal Road, Rathangan
New all-weather football pitch, floodlights, walking track realignment, and car parking at Rathangan FC.
2560672 · Kildare County Council · Lodged 17 June 2025
- Reference
- 2560672
- Authority
- Kildare County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 17 June 2025
Summary
AI-generatedThe application seeks permission for a new all-weather football pitch with fencing and four 12-metre floodlights. It also includes six 15-metre floodlights for the existing grass pitch, realignment of a walking track, car parking, and a bicycle shelter.
Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.
Official record
Development description
For existing prefabricated building comprising of changing rooms, meeting room, toilets and store rooms, and all associated site works. Planning permission is sought for new all-weather football pitch including ancillary fencing and 4no. 12m floodlights. Erection of 6no. 15m floodlights to existing grass pitch, realignment of existing walking track and all associated site works. Revised by significant further information which consists of: the red boundary line must be extended to include the additional proposed development of carparking and a bicycle shelter
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To protect and provide for open space, amenity and recreation provision.”
National zoning type: Active open space
Objective set by the Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Rathangan (2023–2029). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.
Read the zoning objectives in the development planBuilt & sold
What happened next
Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.
Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23rd Lock House, Rathangan, Co Kildare | Nov 2025 | €525,000 | 116 m |
| 133 Mullintine, Rathangan, Kildare | May 2025 | €400,000 | 126 m |
| 5 Tannery Row, Tannery Wharf, Rathangan | Mar 2025 | €290,000 | 149 m |
| 4 Tannery Row, Rathangan, Kildare | Mar 2025 | €380,000 | 159 m |
| 11 Tannery Rd, Rathangan, Kildare | Apr 2025 | €234,583 | 224 m |
| 24 Rathangan Manor, Rathangan, Kildare | Sept 2025 | €375,000 | 411 m |
| 4 Millview Demesne, Rathangan, Kildare | Apr 2025 | €435,000 | 450 m |
| 14 Rathangan Manor, Rathangan, Kildare | Oct 2025 | €200,000 | 457 m |
Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.
Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.
Key dates
Timeline
- Application received17 June 2025
- Further information requested6 August 2025
- Further information received9 February 2026
- Decision due8 March 2026
- Decision issued3 March 2026
- Grant issued8 April 2026
- Permission expiry7 April 2031
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